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Orono Town Hall Sewing Kendal, Kirby Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 M..J 1 J 4 1 iSiiiSSi liliill photo courtesy of S. Curtis Harrison Fuel's delivery buck was towed to the Ministry of Transportation yard for a vehicle inspection following the rollover Monday afternoon which caused several hundred litres of diesel to spill onto the batiks and irto the Stalker Creek. Insert - absorbant booms trap the fuel in the creek.. ' • • , ' ' • Ministry of Environment Investigating Charges are pending fo lowing a single vehicle icc dent Monday afternoon v hie i caused a spill of approximately approximately 1,400 litres of diesel fuel op the banks of Stalker Crei At about 2:25 the drive Harrison Fuels deli truck, travelling westbour < tifte 5th Concession,was ui to stop or slow down wh^: came to the bend at Road. The vehicle over onto its side, causing fuel to leak out of the hatch i Wi fli 7 pk. ref ver/ d or iabb n hi r alsi pel ths the top of the tank. The truck was carrying about 11,000, litres of diesel at the time of the accident. The Orono Fire Department was called to the scene, and immediately began diverting the fuel leaking from the truck to a portable tank. At about 5:00 p.m. the Ministry of Environment (MOE) were on the scene attempting to contain the contamination contamination in the creek with absorbent booms. The MOE have not yet released information information as to the extent of the environmental damage caused by the fuel spill. Clean up efforts will take approximately a week accord- « ing to Warren Coulter of the,' Ganaraska Conservation e Authority. ■ Inspection of the- truck by the Ministry of Transportation did indicate some deficiencies' in the vehicle. Clarington council feel 30 from the radium refining facil- days does not give them ities in Port Hope operating as enough time to comment on Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd. For the clean-up proposal for the a 30 year period from 1955 to Port Granby radioactive waste 1988 the waste management site. They have asked the operations for Eldorado were Federal Government to extend conducted at Port Granby, on the comment period to 60' lakbfront . property on days, beginning on Februaiy Clarington's eastern border. 25, '2002. In 2000, the Government of "We're looking for assur- Canada and Hope Township, ances that timing won't be so Port Hope and Clarington ini- quick that we can't dp our tiated Principles of part," Councillor Jim Schell Understanding outlining terms told Natural Resources Canada for a project to clean-up low- representative David level radioactive wastes in the McCauleV at Monday's three communities. A year General Purpose and later an agreement was signed Administration .Committee in which the Federal meeting. Government and the three The Federal 'Government municipalities agree to clean- initiated the Environmental up and manage the waste in Assessment of the Port Granby above-ground mound facilities site on November 21, 2001. A designed to last for at least 500 draft scope document, namely years. the terms of reference for the One of the caveats of the project will be available for a Federal Government's agree- .30 day public review period ment with Clarington was to beginning on February 25, pay for peer reviews on studies 2002. This scoping document carried out oh the site, will consider the need and pur- ■ "We entered this as a part- pose of the project to encapsu- nership '.-with the Federal late the low-level radioactive Government ' and want to be Waste attire Port Granby facilr seen as moving forward," stat- ity, describe the project and e d Councillor Jim -Schell at consider alternative means of Monday's meeting, "but it's a containing the waste on-site. huge responsibility for us and The low-level radioactive we have no expertise in the waste at Port Granby resulted ' • (continued page 3). Clarington will be reim- money to the area municipali- bursed ' $ 1,05 8,400 of the ties for the , development of money they pay to the Region local transit systems, of Durham for GO Transit Councillors voted last funding. , Wednesday to continue to coT ' Being apportioned 12.6 % ]ect transit binding from the of the Regional levy, area municipalities in 2002 Clarington's share of the GO and subsequent years. The Transit funding last year was Region will return $8.4 rnil- $1,512,000. ' lion to their area municipali- With the province announc- ties to pursue local transit ini- ing they 'were taking'back tiatiyes and will retain $3.6 responsibility for public transit million of the $12 million as a late last year, the Region no reserve for Durham's contribu- longer has to pay $1^ million tion to the Go Transit Capital to the Gréater ' Toronto program. Services Board for their por- ■ - At Monday's Clarington tion pf Go Transit funding. • council meeting Mayor Regional councillors them Mutton stated; "the transit had to decide whether they money, is coming home,. . . , wanted to develop a regional and we're ready to get transit system, or return the rolling."